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Wasteland or wetland?
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
Nirma loses wetland
@sugandh84 Issue Date: Jan 15, 2012
THE union environment ministry has revoked the clearance it had granted to the detergent giant Nirma to construct a cement plant in Gujarat. The 1.91-million-tonnes-per-annum plant is under construction in Mahuva block of Bhavnagar district.
Court raps environment ministry
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2011
ON SEPTEMBER 9, the Supreme Court ordered detergent company Nirma to file its reply to the show cause notice issued by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) within three months. MoEF had issued the notice in May, asking the company to explain within two weeks why the environmental clearance granted to its cement plant in Gujarat should not be revoked. The site is believed to be on wetlands.
Nirma's cement plant hits hurdle
Issue Date: Sep 12, 2011
In a setback to Nirma industries, the Supreme Court has asked the company to prove that the land allocated to it in Gujarat to set up a cement plant is wasteland. Otherwise the project should be scrapped, said a bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia.
Nirma plant in trouble again
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2011
THE Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) has asked detergent company Nirma to explain why the environmental clearance granted to its cement plant in Gujarat should not be revoked. The ministry issued a show cause notice to the company on May 11 after a report by a group of experts showed the plant was violating environmental norms.
Apex court spanner in Nirma cement plant
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2011
The Supreme Court has ordered a new environmental study of the site where detergent company Nirma is setting up a cement plant. The site in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, is believed to be on wetlands.
Water v industry: where is the question?
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
Some hundred people, men and women, were gathered on the hill. Many more, I could see, were trudging up. Their faces were resolute. I asked why they were opposing the cement plant.
Court cements Nirma claim
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
FARMERS of 15 coastal villages in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district have intensified their stir against Nirma company’s cement plant proposed on a waterbody. Activists are mobilizing people against the plant by screening films showing the impact the project will have on farmers of Mahuva tehsil.
Nuclear plant triggers panic
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2010
THE preliminary work on the nuclear power plant in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district has started amid protests.
Farmers demand concrete action
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2010
